Choose a topic for your paper and type it here:
(5 points)
Catcher is largely autobiographical
February 4 — thesis due
Your thesis tells your readers what point you will be making and defending about the novel.
For a guide to writing your thesis (and some examples) click here. Write your thesis here:
(5 points)
In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield acts just the way the author, J.D. Salinger, acts. This novel relates to J.D. Sallinger's life because Holden and Salinger both grew up in wealthy familes, they both have reclusive tendencies
such as being hidden away from the world, and they were both sent off to schools, that they hated, by their families.
Your three main body topics are the main topics you will use to defend your thesis.
You should use at least three different subtopics (main bodies) to defend your thesis in the paper.
Many students use 4, 5, or even more main body topics to organize their papers.
THREE IS JUST A MINIMUM.
Please enter (at least) three main body topics here:
(5 points)
1) Grew up in a very wealthy family
2) Hidden Away from the world
3) Sent away to schools by their families
February 6 — introductory paragraph due
Your intro paragrpah tells your readers the thesis of your paper, and briefly outlines the main body paragraph topics you will use to prove and defend your thesis. Type (or link to) your Introductory Paragraph here:
(10 points)
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like,
and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into
it, if you want to know the truth" (J.D Salinger 1). J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, creates a story that is influenced by
his life. The main character, Holden Caulifield, represents J.D. Salinger. Holden and Salinger act in the same manner in certain
conditions and have been through a lot of the same things. They both also lived in the northeast creating similar problems for the both of
them. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield acts
just the way the author, J.D. Salinger, acts. This novel relates to J.D. Sallinger's life because Holden and Salinger both grew up in wealthy
familes, they both have reclusive tendencies such as being hidden away from the world, and they were both sent off to schools, that they
hated, by their families.
February 7 — critical articles (secondary sources) due
You need at least three secondary sources (essays or articles about the novel written by professional critics) from which you will quote the words of the author/critic to help defend your thesis. List the titles and authors of your three secondary sources here:
(5 points)
1)
2)
3)
NOTE: It is a good idea to find more than three articles in case you change your mind about using one of them. Remember, your final paper must have a total of 8-15 quotes from these secondary sources to help you make your point and defend your thesis. These eight quotes must come from at least three different secondary sources.
February 8 — secondary source quotes
Using each of your three articles at least once, select at least 8 details or quotes from your articles to defend thesis.
YOU MUST LIST THE QUOTE, THE SOURCE OF THE QUOTE, AND THE MAIN BODY TOPIC OF YOUR PAPER WHERE YOU WILL USE THE QUOTE. List at least eight quotes from secondary sources here:
(5 points)
1) QUOTE: "Raised in Manhattan, Salinger was the second of two children of a prosperous Jewish importer and a Scots- Irish mother."
TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger (1919- ) pg.1
AUTHOR: None
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
2) QUOTE: "Like Holen, Salinger was restless in fashionable prep schoos, and Salinger was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy, a model for Pencey Prep in Salinger's novel."
TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger pg. 1
AUTHOR: Warren French
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to school by family
3) QUOTE: "Salinger said that his own childhood was much like that of the boy Holden Caulfield."
TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger pg. 1
AUTHOR: Warren French
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
4) QUOTE: "Holden dreamed of living in the city and going west where he could live in a little cabin and this description foreshadows exactly the kind of place Salinger has lived for twenty years, but the only difference is that he lives in New England."
TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger pg. 3
AUTHOR: Warren French
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
5) QUOTE: "Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger has consistently avoided contact with the public, obstruting attempts by those wishing to pry in his personal life."
TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger (1919- ) pg. 3
AUTHOR: None
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
6) QUOTE: "Salinger left Ursinus College just after only one semester."
TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger (1919- ) pg. 3
AUTHOR: None
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to schools by family
7) QUOTE: "The attitude of Salinger has been found in much of his writing as there is a pattern throughout his work of impatience with the tedium of formal learning and academic types."
TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger (1919- ) pg. 3
AUTHOR: None
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to schools by family
8) QUOTE: "The Catcher in the Rye provides the artist a framework upon which he may hang almost any fabric of events and characters."
TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff pg. 1
AUTHOR: Arthur Heiserman
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)
February 11 — primary source quotes
Please select at least 10 details from the novel to defend thesis Feb 11 List them here:
(5 points)
1.) QUOTE: "Somewhere out West where it was very pretty and sunny and where nobody'd know me and I'd get a job." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 198
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
2) QUOTE: "That way I would not have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 198
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
3) QUOTE: "This is about the fourth school I've gone to." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 9
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to school by family
4) QUOTE: Want your parents to know you spent the night with a whore? High-class kid like you? (Maurice to Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 102
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
5) QUOTE: The nuns kept asking me if I was sure I could afford it. i told them I had quite a bit of money with me, but they didn't seem to believe me." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 110
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
6) QUOTE: "what we could do is, tomorrow we could drive up to Massachusetts and Vermont, and all around there, see." (Holden to Sally)
PAGE NUMBER: 132
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
7) QUOTE:I have about a hundred and eighty bucks in the bank." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 132
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
8) QUOTE: "We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 132
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
9) QUOTE: "The worst he will do, he"ll give me hell again, and then he'll send me to that goddam military school." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 166
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to school by family
10) QUOTE: " I"ll be away. I'll probably be in Colorado on this ranch." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 166
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)
February 12 — outline your main body
Please arrange your 10 primary source quotes and your 8 secondary source quotes into an outline of the body of your critical paper.
In other words, list the quotes in the order you will use them under each main body topic.
If you use a word document to do this, this could become the framework for your actual paper (because you could type your own writing in between the quotes after you've arranged them in order in this outline, thus creating a draft of your actual paper).
Please post (or link to) a word document containing the outline of your main body (everything but your intro and conclusion) here:
(5 points)
Write a draft of the body of your paper for peer review.
Please create a link to this first draft, calling it (YOURNAME)'S FIRST DRAFT, as a new wiki page.
Ask at least three of your classmates to read your draft (you might need to tell them where to find it by emailing them a link).
Students will be expected to read each other's drafts and leave comments in the discussion board.
(10 points)
JOHN SCHOELL'S FIRST DRAFT
February 14 — peer review
List the names of at least three of your classmates whose first drafts you read and commented upon:
(5 points)
1) Caitlyn
2)Phong
3)Tasha
At this point, begin revising your draft and come up with a second rough draft.
February 19 — final rough draft
Submit a paper copy of your final draft of the body to the teacher.
(20 points)
Revise your conclusion paragraph and present a copy to your teacher today. Also, please type (or link to) the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here:
(10 points)
Turn in a paper copy of your works cited page to your teacher today! Link to the Word document of your works cited page here: (20 points) Works cited
February 27 — CRITICAL PAPER DUE!!!
Turn in the final draft of critical paper TODAY, including:
a) note cards
b) outline of body
c) all rough drafts
d) completed checklist, signed
e) final draft of paper, typed, double spaced (5-7 pgs.)
f) final works cited / references page
(100 points)
March 5 — TURN IT IN (dot com)
Today is the final day for MANDATORY submission of your final critical paper to www.turnitin.com
FAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM WILL RESULT IN A ZERO ON YOUR PAPER!
Hooray!! You're done!
Now let's have some fun making our Julius Caesar movie!
John Schoell's Critical Paper
Back to Critical Papers HomeJanuary 29 — folder and parent signature due
January 30 — note cards due
Did you show the teacher your one pack of 3x5 notecards? (5 pts.)
YES
Did you buy your own copy of The Catcher in the Rye to mark up? (optional)
NO
January 31 — select a topic
View a list of potential paper topics:Choose a topic for your paper and type it here:
(5 points)
Catcher is largely autobiographical
February 4 — thesis due
Your thesis tells your readers what point you will be making and defending about the novel.
For a guide to writing your thesis (and some examples) click here.
Write your thesis here:
(5 points)
In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield acts just the way the author, J.D. Salinger, acts. This novel relates to J.D. Sallinger's life because Holden and Salinger both grew up in wealthy familes, they both have reclusive tendencies
such as being hidden away from the world, and they were both sent off to schools, that they hated, by their families.
SOURCES:
1.) Schoell 1
2.) Schoell 2
3.) Schoell 3
February 5 — identify three main body topics
Your three main body topics are the main topics you will use to defend your thesis.You should use at least three different subtopics (main bodies) to defend your thesis in the paper.
Many students use 4, 5, or even more main body topics to organize their papers.
THREE IS JUST A MINIMUM.
Please enter (at least) three main body topics here:
(5 points)
1) Grew up in a very wealthy family
2) Hidden Away from the world
3) Sent away to schools by their families
February 6 — introductory paragraph due
Your intro paragrpah tells your readers the thesis of your paper, and briefly outlines the main body paragraph topics you will use to prove and defend your thesis.
Type (or link to) your Introductory Paragraph here:
(10 points)
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like,
and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into
it, if you want to know the truth" (J.D Salinger 1). J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, creates a story that is influenced by
his life. The main character, Holden Caulifield, represents J.D. Salinger. Holden and Salinger act in the same manner in certain
conditions and have been through a lot of the same things. They both also lived in the northeast creating similar problems for the both of
them. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield acts
just the way the author, J.D. Salinger, acts. This novel relates to J.D. Sallinger's life because Holden and Salinger both grew up in wealthy
familes, they both have reclusive tendencies such as being hidden away from the world, and they were both sent off to schools, that they
hated, by their families.
February 7 — critical articles (secondary sources) due
You need at least three secondary sources (essays or articles about the novel written by professional critics) from which you will quote the words of the author/critic to help defend your thesis.
List the titles and authors of your three secondary sources here:
(5 points)
1)
2)
3)
NOTE: It is a good idea to find more than three articles in case you change your mind about using one of them. Remember, your final paper must have a total of 8-15 quotes from these secondary sources to help you make your point and defend your thesis. These eight quotes must come from at least three different secondary sources.
February 8 — secondary source quotes
Using each of your three articles at least once, select at least 8 details or quotes from your articles to defend thesis.
YOU MUST LIST THE QUOTE, THE SOURCE OF THE QUOTE, AND THE MAIN BODY TOPIC OF YOUR PAPER WHERE YOU WILL USE THE QUOTE.
List at least eight quotes from secondary sources here:
(5 points)
1) QUOTE: "Raised in Manhattan, Salinger was the second of two children of a prosperous Jewish importer and a Scots- Irish mother."
TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger (1919- ) pg.1
AUTHOR: None
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
2) QUOTE: "Like Holen, Salinger was restless in fashionable prep schoos, and Salinger was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy, a model for Pencey Prep in Salinger's novel."
TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger pg. 1
AUTHOR: Warren French
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to school by family
3) QUOTE: "Salinger said that his own childhood was much like that of the boy Holden Caulfield."
TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger pg. 1
AUTHOR: Warren French
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
4) QUOTE: "Holden dreamed of living in the city and going west where he could live in a little cabin and this description foreshadows exactly the kind of place Salinger has lived for twenty years, but the only difference is that he lives in New England."
TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger pg. 3
AUTHOR: Warren French
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
5) QUOTE: "Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger has consistently avoided contact with the public, obstruting attempts by those wishing to pry in his personal life."
TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger (1919- ) pg. 3
AUTHOR: None
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
6) QUOTE: "Salinger left Ursinus College just after only one semester."
TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger (1919- ) pg. 3
AUTHOR: None
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to schools by family
7) QUOTE: "The attitude of Salinger has been found in much of his writing as there is a pattern throughout his work of impatience with the tedium of formal learning and academic types."
TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger (1919- ) pg. 3
AUTHOR: None
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to schools by family
8) QUOTE: "The Catcher in the Rye provides the artist a framework upon which he may hang almost any fabric of events and characters."
TITLE & PAGE: J. D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff pg. 1
AUTHOR: Arthur Heiserman
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)
February 11 — primary source quotes
Please select at least 10 details from the novel to defend thesis Feb 11
List them here:
(5 points)
1.) QUOTE: "Somewhere out West where it was very pretty and sunny and where nobody'd know me and I'd get a job." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 198
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
2) QUOTE: "That way I would not have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 198
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
3) QUOTE: "This is about the fourth school I've gone to." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 9
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to school by family
4) QUOTE: Want your parents to know you spent the night with a whore? High-class kid like you? (Maurice to Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 102
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
5) QUOTE: The nuns kept asking me if I was sure I could afford it. i told them I had quite a bit of money with me, but they didn't seem to believe me." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 110
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
6) QUOTE: "what we could do is, tomorrow we could drive up to Massachusetts and Vermont, and all around there, see." (Holden to Sally)
PAGE NUMBER: 132
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
7) QUOTE:I have about a hundred and eighty bucks in the bank." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 132
SUBTOPIC: Grew up in a wealthy family
8) QUOTE: "We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 132
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
9) QUOTE: "The worst he will do, he"ll give me hell again, and then he'll send me to that goddam military school." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 166
SUBTOPIC: Sent away to school by family
10) QUOTE: " I"ll be away. I'll probably be in Colorado on this ranch." (Holden)
PAGE NUMBER: 166
SUBTOPIC: Hidden away from the world
(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above)
February 12 — outline your main body
Please arrange your 10 primary source quotes and your 8 secondary source quotes into an outline of the body of your critical paper.In other words, list the quotes in the order you will use them under each main body topic.
If you use a word document to do this, this could become the framework for your actual paper (because you could type your own writing in between the quotes after you've arranged them in order in this outline, thus creating a draft of your actual paper).
Please post (or link to) a word document containing the outline of your main body (everything but your intro and conclusion) here:
(5 points)
Schoell Outline
February 13 — first draft of main body
Write a draft of the body of your paper for peer review.
Please create a link to this first draft, calling it (YOURNAME)'S FIRST DRAFT, as a new wiki page.
Ask at least three of your classmates to read your draft (you might need to tell them where to find it by emailing them a link).
Students will be expected to read each other's drafts and leave comments in the discussion board.
(10 points)
JOHN SCHOELL'S FIRST DRAFT
February 14 — peer review
List the names of at least three of your classmates whose first drafts you read and commented upon:
(5 points)
1) Caitlyn
2)Phong
3)Tasha
At this point, begin revising your draft and come up with a second rough draft.
February 19 — final rough draft
Submit a paper copy of your final draft of the body to the teacher.
(20 points)
February 21 — rough draft of conclusion paragraph
Please type (or link to) the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here:
(5 points)
ROUGH CONCLUSION
February 22 — final draft of conclusion paragraph
Revise your conclusion paragraph and present a copy to your teacher today.
Also, please type (or link to) the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here:
(10 points)
Final rough draft of conclusion
February 25 — Works Cited Page due
Turn in a paper copy of your works cited page to your teacher today!
Link to the Word document of your works cited page here:
(20 points) Works cited
February 27 — CRITICAL PAPER DUE!!!
Turn in the final draft of critical paper TODAY, including:
a) note cards
b) outline of body
c) all rough drafts
d) completed checklist, signed
e) final draft of paper, typed, double spaced (5-7 pgs.)
f) final works cited / references page
(100 points)
March 5 — TURN IT IN (dot com)
Today is the final day for MANDATORY submission of your final critical paper to www.turnitin.com
FAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM WILL RESULT IN A ZERO ON YOUR PAPER!
Hooray!! You're done!
Now let's have some fun making our Julius Caesar movie!